Marta Näripä

Marta Näripä

Fellow

Current Country

Estonia 🇪🇪

Current City

Tartu

Intuition

Cultivating inner knowing

A question currently animating me about the inner life/spirit is:

Who could I become if I allowed myself to embrace imperfection?

August 31, 2025

A question currently animating me about the outer world/universe/multiverse is:

August 31, 2025

The practices I’m finding most helpful at the moment are:

Other

August 31, 2025

A moment I noticed my inner light kindled this month was:

In August I was able to reconnect with my local theatre community through volunteering. The flow of people's exited energy, laughter from the hearth and childlike playful atmosphere is a combination that heals a piece of my soul every time I volunteer there.

August 31, 2025

A moment I noticed my inner light dwindled this month was:

This month was rather rough as I felt stuck in a constant cycle that had worn off. My inner light dwindled when I opened my computer for the first time since graduating and re-experienced my academic anxiety, pedantic bureaucracy and normalisation of artificial work environments

August 31, 2025

Courage

Aligning action

Assumptions I'm examining right now are:

Impact

August 31, 2025

I originally assumed:

I used to think that impact is the most significant when it affects many people. That if the masses aren't reached, then proportionately, the success rate of making a positive impact is barely anything.

August 31, 2025

These assumptions are changing:

Now I sense that real impact cannot be judged by merely numbers, but also the depth, duration and intensity of the chain reaction it promotes.

August 31, 2025

A moment I stepped out of my comfort zone this month was:

I spontaneously decided to offer a cheesecake to 3 unhoused people at night who were very grateful for it. It is uncommon for Estonians to even say "hi" back to strangers as a part of post-soviet package, so approaching strangers on the street is extremely out of my comfort zone.

August 31, 2025

Compassion

Engaged Empathy

Something that is helping me build trusting relationships here is:

The friendship roulette has been so rewarding! I have been loving getting to know people 1:1

August 31, 2025

Digital Detox Retreat

Number of days I've gone without technology

Number of days I've gone without technology

15

Gratitude

Peers I'm grateful for:

Naomi Løvstad Wettstein

Naomi, thanks for trusting me to share a piece of yourself! I am so grateful for your presence in our conversations and the curiosity you are bringing to the Friday sessions. Also, thank you for creating this beautiful film, ohh how inspired I felt after watching it!

August 31, 2025

Asmaa Drawat

Thank you for our call! It made me so alive to have such an enriching discussion with you from philisophical pondering about the gloablisation and politics to getting to know your a bit about your daily life and aspirations <3

August 15, 2025

Peers who have expressed gratitude for me:

Ruan Vitor Cordeiro da Silva

Thank you so much for noticing during our coaching sessions that I was a little bit distant. I was having a tough week because of my work, and it made me so happy to see that someone noticed and worried about me (I already said this to you, but I love to appreciate people so!) <3

September 1, 2025

Naomi Løvstad Wettstein

I appreciate your presence and I'll look forward to our next call, and this growing connection. I feel this deeper sense of connection to you: perhaps because you remind me of one my friends, our similar background or just in the way you show up in our friday sessions. Tänan teid

August 29, 2025